Nouns

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

A type of word; definition being a person, place, thing or idea.

Question 2

What are the different type of nouns?

Answer 2

Singular & Plural
Concrete & Abstract
Common & Proper
Animate & Inanimate
Count & Non-Count

Question 3

What is a Singular Noun?

Answer 3

A noun that describes a singular person, place, thing or idea.

Question 4

What is a Plural Noun?

Answer 4

A noun that describes multiple people, places, things or ideas.

Question 5

What are the different type of Plural Nouns?

Answer 5

Regular Plurals & Irregular Plurals

Question 6

What are Regular Plurals?

Answer 6

Any noun that you can pluralize with an S.

Question 7

What are Irregular Plurals?

Answer 7

Any plurals that are the exception to ending with S.

Question 8

How do you pluralize words ending with a singular f?

Answer 8

With the replacement of ‘ves’. There are exceptions to this rule, ex. Chefs
But.. usually ‘ves’ works. Ex. Leaves, Loaves, Bookshelves.

Question 9

What three words are the only nouns pluralized with ‘en’?

Answer 9

Brethren/Sistren, Oxen, Children.

Question 10

What are Base Plurals?

Answer 10

Any pluralized noun that remain the same singular or pluralized. Ex. Sheep, Fish

Question 11

What are Mutant Plurals?

Answer 11

Any noun that when pluralized shifts its vowel sound.

Question 12

How many Mutant Plurals exist?

Answer 12

7: foot, woman, man, tooth, goose, mouse, louse.

Question 13

What are Foreign Plurals?

Answer 13

Any nouns originating from other languages that haven’t yet been regularized.

Question 14

How do you pluralize a word of Latin origin ending with ‘a’?

Answer 14

Ae
Example: Larva -> Larvae

Question 15

How do you pluralize a word of Latin origin ending with ‘us’?

Answer 15

I
Example: Fungus -> Fungi

Question 16

How do you pluralize a word of Latin origin ending with ‘um’?

Answer 16

A
Example: ‘datum’ -> ‘data’

Question 17

How do you pluralize a word of Latin origin ending with ‘ex’

Answer 17

Ices
Example: index -> indices

Question 18

How do you pluralize a word of Greek origin ending with ‘is’?

Answer 18

Es
Example: thesis -> theses

Question 19

How do you pluralize a word of Greek origin ending with ‘on’?

Answer 19

A
Example: criterion -> criteria

Question 20

What are Proper Nouns?

Answer 20

Nouns that specify a particular person, place, thing or idea.

Question 21

What are the only Nouns you capitalize?

Answer 21

In addition to the first letter of the first word of a sentence - you only capitalize Proper Nouns. (I capitalize to emphasize, however that doesn’t mean it’s grammatically correct lol)

Question 22

What do you capitalize, besides Proper Nouns?

Answer 22

Historical Eras, the pronoun I, capitalizing job titles (only when they come before a name & totally depending on the conventions of what you’re doing.

Question 23

What are Common Nouns?

Answer 23

Nouns that broadly describe people, places, things and ideas. Ex. The man, the house, the company, the freedom.

Question 24

What is a Concrete Noun?

Answer 24

Nouns that describe anything you can physically interact with. Ex. Hannah, the house, the cat.

Question 25

What is an Abstract Noun?

Answer 25

A noun describing something you can’t physically interact with. Ex. Love, feelings, science.

Question 26

What is an Animate Noun?

Answer 26

A noun that describes something that is alive

Question 27

What is an Inanimate Noun?

Answer 27

A noun that describes something that isn’t alive.

Question 28

What is a Count Noun?

Answer 28

Any noun that can follow after a, the and pluralize itself.
Correct: Ex. A city, the city, cities or a cat, the cat, cats.
Incorrect: Ex. A furniture, the furniture, furnitures or a money, the money, moneys.

Question 29

What is a Non-Count Noun?

Answer 29

A noun that cannot be followed after all following conditions: A, the or pluralize itself.
Correct: A furniture, the furniture, furnitures
Incorrect: A money, the money, moneys

Question 30

What is a Human Noun?

Answer 30

Any noun that is describing a human.

Question 31

What is a Non-Human Noun?

Answer 31

A noun describing something that isn’t human.

Question 32

How would you use Fish vs. Fishes?

Answer 32

A good rule of thumb is to use fish to refer a group of fishes without specifying their species, while on the other hand, using fishes to describe a group of fish with particular species you’d like to call out.

Ex: Ms. Stephanie, a fish fanatic, is researching on different species of fishes to determine what fish to get.
Ex. Ms. Stephanie screamed, running toward the inappropriately uncared for tank while she ran her finger down the glass. “Look at the fish! They’re changing color.” She’d frown.

Question 33

What are Pronouns?

Answer 33

Any word used to replace a noun.
Ex. She, he, it, that

Question 34

What is Grammar?

Answer 34

A set of rules and conventions that govern a language.

(How I’d describe it: A set of necessary regulations that help a language function with the occasional appearance of conventions that help appropriate)

Question 35

What are rules, in the context of Grammar?

Answer 35

Necessary regulations that help a language function as intended & be understood.

Question 36

What are conventions, in the context of Grammar?

Answer 36

Collectively agreed upon standards enforced upon grammarians depend on setting.
Ex. The Oxford comma, regional spelling, tone, format.